A word of gratitude

     You can see by the date that this was taken just a couple of months ago. We are very fortunate to be able to travel to distant places and have new experiences on a regular basis. When we were first married, over a half century ago, we had very little. We were, however, in school and working and we learned to live modestly. We had what we needed and that made us well off.
     As the years passed we did not think about it, but we just kept living modestly and saved a little here and there.  We were (I don't like the word) lucky.  We had our education. We had jobs. We had one another. After both of us faced major illnesses, we got better. Insurance had paid the bills, and there we were with our savings. We were not exactly sure how to spend money, having not tried too hard to do it before, but we decided that seeing the world, meeting new people, and trying to be good citizens of the world sounded like something we would like to do.
     There will come a day when we will not be able to do these things, but for now we go with a sense of real gratitude that we have been blessed with the traveling itch and the ability to scratch it.